It’s a web app! No download required.

If your not using wefwef already, try it out.

Closest thing to Apollo right now.

Oh, looks like I’m switching instances.

MacOS.

Prefer Linux but I like the Apple hardware so I’m giving it a try.

It’s the beginning of the end if you catch my drift.

There’s no way Reddit can recover from this.

Even if they were to revert every single poor decision in the last 6 months right now, the damage is done.

They showed their true colours, and everyone is done with the platform.

Long live Lemmy.

This whole Japan nuclear wastewater thing going around the news has me shaking my head.

The word nuclear in general just scares people.

I had a feeling there was something going when when Steve Huffman specifically called out in his interview that most comments sections were full of users ‘just wanting to go back to normal’ when the sub polls were clearly showing a different story.

The problem is a UI thing too. In wefwef for example half the time you go to post something and it says ‘error posting’, your comment actually did post. But sometimes it doesn’t.

I typically go until I see success and then delete any duplicates I left on accident.

For real, on Reddit an 8 hour old post and nobody will see your comment.

Here I can comment on a post 2 days old and still get replies.

Yes but it will take at least a few years of organic use before you can do what we do with Reddit and add ‘Lemmy’ at the end of your search query.

I’m really confident Lemmy can be the future, so I’m being as active as possible while it’s small.

To everyone reading this: if you see a post with 0 comments, even a few days old, leave one. You could spark a conversation.

As early adopters, it’s important for us to be active on the platform. You see posts without comments, and then don’t leave a comment yourself because of it.

Be the change you want to see! Leave that first comment to spark a discussion.

Ah I see, I’ve only been using it from wefwef so far.

It will. Reddit only added video hosting in the past couple years. Before that, everyone just linked imgur and other hosting sites.

I bet the largest servers will eventually have their own hosting platform too, but for now it’s one of the growing pains.

It will. Reddit only added video hosting in the past couple years. Before that, everyone just linked imgur and other hosting sites.

I bet the largest servers will eventually have their own hosting platform too, but for now it’s one of the growing pains.

But that’s not really a feature of Lemmy itself, but the program reading it.

For example, if I’m using a Lemmy app on my iPhone and I see a post with a YouTube link, the app is the one that needs to implement this embedded view feature.

Went Lemmy.world because I had no idea how any of this worked.

Gonna stick with it for now, because there isn’t really a reason to switch. In the future I might switch or host my own.

But it’s sustainable if it’s non profit.

Most third party Reddit users were happy to pay in the range of $5 a month. The reason everything is shutting down now is because they don’t just want to break even, they want profit, and a shit ton at that.

The fediverse makes social media non-profit by default which means that we can all share the cost.

Wikipedia is one of the largest websites in the world and is still non-profit. It shows that it’s sustainable.

It’s non profit by default, the very thing that social media needs.

People who run Lemmy servers do it at their own cost. That’s not to say they can’t run ads or choose other ways to become profitable. The big difference between a lemmy instance and something like Reddit is that anyone can start a new instance if the current one goes to shit. If the admins do something the users REALLY don’t like, they can migrate to another instance way more easily than switching platforms.

Reddit is counting on the effort of switching platforms being too high for lemmy to gain traction. They are wrong.

The developers do it for free, which is common in the open source community. There will always be volunteers to build the software and donors to support them.